Archive for September, 2007
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
So .Net are holding their netawards 2007.
Obviously they need a web site, and since they have done a recent article with a 3ev about the Chemical Brothers site, they seemed a good choice.
All is fine so far.
The voting/awards site that the agency built (thenetawards.com) uses an accordion style menu.
Now it starts to go wrong.
With the huge number of freely available javascript libraries and plug ins for menus like this, including mootools, jQuery and scriptaculous, they surely could have built one that is accessible and worked without javascript.
But oh no, even though the site is for .Net magazine, advocates of unobtrusive, accessible and usable design, and despite an article with 3ev bigging themselves up, they still produce this poor excuse for Web 2.0 functionality.
Please guys (I’m talking to you 3ev!), if you are going to produce a site for a high profile industry mag and promote yourselves in that mag, at least make some effort to abide by the beliefs the mag promotes and you yourselves claim to hold high.
And entering that random text is annoying, enough to stop me voting in all categories and only voting for jQuery in the innovation category.
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
A blog entry by my friend Gareth prompted me to blog about this useful bookmarklet.
So you have the web developer toolbar, have solved all issues in Firefox, only to find IE doesn’t do the same.
What if you could click a bookmarked site, load a piece of javascript, then you simply click on any element on a page to display the element, id, class, hierarchy, positioning, border, margin and padding values in a pretty interface? Well sonny, with X-Ray (from http://westciv.com) you can!
The best bit is that it even works in IE, so you can troubleshoot any box model or double margin problems easily! It’s an excellent idea, and if I hadn’t already voted for jQuery, I would have voted for it in the innovation category of the .net magazine awards. Maybe you could vote in my stead!
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
So after a few days in work, not very long (but long enough!) I was off away again to Ruf Y Anun’s wedding in Palma, Mallorca. The flight was fine (easyjet aren’t that bad) and waiting for Jen in the hotel was great as I managed to squeeze in four pints.
Standard Mallorca holiday malarkey until the wedding on Saturday 1st September, 5pm local time. The Church was amazing (see above and below). Anunciada went to school there apparently, which is a bit nicer than the brick building in Hamsterley that taught me to read!
The service, in a mix of Spanish and English was lovely, with readings from both sides and the priest even doing his best in English.
Rufous is clearly impressed with the whole marriage lark.
Afterwards we got a few buses to the Hotel Delta Beach Club, on the coast with a great view, great food (the beef was EXCELLENT, as was the sorbet!). I think being seated at the Bride and Groom’s table was a bonus – it meant Hufty could entertain us! Free wine flowed freely and the dancing was inspired (I cleared the floor at least twice!). I just wish someone had told me the Spanish were going on to a club when the bus home dropped us off in El Arenal about 5am, since I definitely could have partied on into the day – at least I think so!
Anyway, a few more days of beach, burning, pool and Tapas later we all went home and back to daily life. This may be a little short, but then again, I was drunk most of the time and memories fade when intoxicated!
Ole!